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School: Tulach Ruacháin

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Tulrohaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál de Bhaldraithe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0109, Page 691

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    A great many people wear home-made clothes. The people themselves knit home-made stockings and shirts. Before the women make the stocking the thread is spun. First the wool is prepared for spinning. It is oiled and teased out and then it is carded with a pair cards and it is made into rolls. After that it is spun with a spinning wheel. There is a band going round the spinning wheel and it is joined to the spinnle and she starts spinning. When she has a few pairs of stockings knitted she colours them. When she has the stockings made she makes more thread. All the spinning wheel is made
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Caulfield
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Culnacleha, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Patrick Caulfield
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Culnacleha, Co. Mayo